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Alderney and Sark: Births and deaths from 1925 and marriages from 1919 are kept by the Clerk of the Court (Alderney) and the General Registrar (Sark). All other records are held on Guernsey.

Guernsey: Births and deaths from 1840 and marriages from 1919 are held by at Her Majesty’s Greffier. The indexes and records are available for public searching. Up to 1949, married women’s deaths were recorded under their maiden names. Occasionally, death certificates will give the maiden name of the mother. Copies of the 19th-century records are also at the Priaulx Library. Copies of the birth and death registers 1840–1907 and marriages 1840–1911, and indexes for births and marriages to 1966 and deaths to 1963 are at the SoG. During the German occupation 1940–45 a separate set of records was kept, and is now held at the General Register Office with copies at the SoG.

Jersey: Births, marriages and deaths from 1842 are kept by the Judicial Greffe. Only postal searches are possible, although copies of the indexes 1842–1900 are at the library of the Société Jersiaise and the Channel Islands Family History Society. Marriage certificates often give the spouses’ birthplaces.